. . . everything can be taken from a man except one thing: the last of the human freedoms–to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
On this date — September 2 — in 1944, Anne Frank was among 1,019 people on the 68th and last train from Holland to Auschwitz. Anne and others hiding with her had been betrayed and captured a month before and held in the Westerbork detention center.
The Frank family had gone into hiding two years earlier, in July 1942, after Anne’s sister, Margot, received a call-up notice to report for deportation to a labor camp.
Anne was at Auschwitz for two months, then at Bergen-Belsen, where she and Margot died four months later of typhus, just a few weeks before the camp was liberated.
Anne’s father, Otto, was liberated from Auschwitz by the Russian Army on January 27, 1945. His wife, Edith, had died the previous day.
Otto Frank was taken first to Odessa and then to France before being allowed to return to Amsterdam. He did not learn the whereabouts of his daughters until October 24, when he received a letter informing him they had died at Bergen-Belsen.
This unfortunately was not an unusual family trajectory for European Jews in the 1940s. Anne Frank is remembered from among millions of others because she maintained a blog — I mean diary — so that her experiences, what she did, the thoughts she had, and everything she suffered was not lost.
I suppose the same holds true for everyone, with or without a diary — nothing is lost, nothing can be undone . . . and it may be possible for a life that appears to be quite pointless at the time to attain a meaning, a purpose, even through suffering, failure and death . . .
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Wow. The blatant stupidity emanating from some of these comments is astounding. The fact that you’re able to type one or two legible words, let alone read a whole book, is remarkable. Go back to whatever cave you crawled out of. And as for those who are ‘speaking’ to Anne and Hitler…you do realize that they’re dead, right? Leaving a random comment on a random website isn’t going to reach either of them.
Dear Kath,
It is amazing how much stupidity you just placed in this website not only because this is a website to share feelings about Anne Frank and her life it is a memorabilia. You should not be criticizing people on how they want to explain how they feel and i am sure in the after life you will get a rude awakening that these people aren’t writing to the necessary person Hitler or Anne Frank but are writing to get out their feelings about Anne Frank and what they would like to tell her if she were alive so I believe that you are the one whom needs to crawl back into whatever cave you came out of and if thats your attitude on life then you really need to wake up and get over yourself. So smile, act happy, and keep your rude comments to yourself Ok.
Hiaa!x
anne was a great young girl and it is a shame that her and her family died so young over such a stupid thing; racism.
it is such a shame, but in saying that, everything in life happens for a reason.
now she is in heaven with her family, living her life the way she wants 🙂 x
R.I.P to everyone who has died in ww1-ww2 and all the other terrible wars that are happening in the world right now xxx
Jessica MArtin, 12 years old, Dumfries, Scotland.
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que pena que as coisas ñ acontece como na maioria dos filmes com final feliz.foi bom de mais um dos melhores que encontrei;)
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to sad ann franks dead but there is nothing we can do about it , if the nazis didnt lose The GREAT WAR
then that would be a whole differn t story
hiya im from england but a few years back i went over to germany and went to belsan burgan and saw ann franks grave and many more its upsetting to think what went on in there….no birds fly over the camp the grass dosent grow green and there is mounds all over were peploe were burried and a number with how many people are in it…..what a shame……..we left little stones on a remembrance wall….xxxx
Anne Frank i know ur dead but u sure r a great role model for people because u teach them to be brave, strong and even through the holocaust caring and happy. ur amazing Anne Frank. i did a report on u and u fasinate me so much. i wish i could be as brace as u Anne Frank.
i have to read the hole book in a day for school and it is sooooooooo boring.
she was so nice sticking up for herself and her family so lucky to have a nice dad i want to be like her willing to do anything
this is really useful for my report
When I read this i started to cry it mad me remember all of the jews that had died and my grate grandfather who died in the cosesion camp.
I’m sorry Anne Frank
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i read the book a week ago it many me cry. some people now take the mick if someone comes form germanay and calls them a nazi it feels bad and im very sorry for anne and margot they were young
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i think anne frank is the coolist, and braveist kid in the history books, and still today. she is so brave how she stuck up for her self and family
my name is Max and i am a girl.
hello to all of you that have read/seen Anne’s story. I tuely believe that Anne Frank was a lovely young woman and i hate it that she died. If she would have lived longer…she could have been wih Pim…oh i’m sorry but Pim is what Anne called her dad. I’m not sure what it means but i think it basically means ‘papa’ or ‘dad’. I think that it is really terrible how the Germans decriminated the Jews and let me just say we are very lucky that this didn’t happen to african-americans. In my 8th grade language class we just finished watching the Anne Frank movie, and we have also been studying Anne Frank and the Holocaust for about 2 weeks now. The story made about 3 girls cry. Me, my friend Jade, and my friend Kierra. There may have been more but i didn’t see. There are ATLEAST 15-20 people in my class. Maybe less. But i really can’t believe that they weren’t touched by this.
Let me just say to the people who are saying that you are the “reincarnation of Anne Frank”. I have a little piece of me for you. No one and i mean no ONE can be the reincarnation of Anne Frank. Those of you who are saying that, your trying to stand out. It was not who Anne Frank WAS that made her famous. it was her personallity, not that she dated Peter Van Pels or that she lived through the Holocaust. Lots of people lived through the Holocaust. Do they have a book? No. Anne has a book because she was hum,ble, smart, obiediant, and expressed her feelings. Of all you people who are the so called “reincarnate” of Anne Frank, open your eyes cause no one is going to believe you. You can only be one person. And that person is you. Whether your a Taylor or a Madison or an Amy. Brianna, Tyler, Matt. Chris, Nathan, Philip. You are YOU. Not a 16 year old girl who lived through the Holocaust. Cause if you were, you would be having horrid nightmares of the corps’ at the concentration camps. You would be seeing the ACTUAL Anne Frank people and Anne’s friend Jackie. (Jacqeline) NO one can relive the life of Anne Frank. SHe was an amazign person and i am going into hysterics researching her.
I am a writer. I am writing books. Im 13. A young writer JUST LIKE Anne. My next book is going to be about the Holocaust. I am yet to be publishd but i believe that i fi write a story that gets published it might have something to do about this comment. I haven’t dcided the name of my character, but she is going to go into hiding like Anne Frank. If you have read all the way to the end of this comment you are truly meant to be a reader/writer.
Now if anyone here is ANYTHING like Anne Frank. It’s me. And it’s not because i see your so called “visions”, or that i speak German or Dutch for no apparent reason. It’s beacause we share the same dream. And we are both truly humble. Anne Frank is one of my favorite people in history along with the entire Frank family and everyone who hid with the Franks.
And for those of you who want to know. Miep Gies, the nice kind lady that helped the Franks and friends(or Franks and Co. if you prefer), is 100 now, and lives somewhere is Amsterdam still i am correct. Thank you so much for reading my comment. and goodbye for now.
oh sorry there was an error in my last comment. everytime i said Anne Frank lived through the Holocaust she didnt. she almost did but she didn’t. which is the saddest part…
@Max —
I enjoyed reading your comment. Keep writing! That’s interesting to know about Miep Gies…